[This is a guest post by Comrade Rapha. He originally published the following comment yesterday on his own blog, Politika etc.]
Almost 25 years after the end of the military dictatorship (1964 – 1985), Brazil still faces the ghosts of authoritarianism. Surprisingly, these spirits came back in the context of an institution which played a remarkable [...]
Thanks to Comrade Rapha for informing us about this story.
Scientific Community Teargassed in Brazil
Written by Pablo Ortellado
Sunday, 14 June 2009 13:25
[Originally published on EduFactory]
120 professors and about 1,200 students and university workers were beaten and teargassed in the main campus of the University of São Paulo in Brazil last Tuesday (June 9).
Conflicts started after a one [...]
This shocking report comes to us via Brian Holmes on the nettime mailing list. Here is how he prefaced it:
Sorry for any cross-posting, but this material from Emily Foreman is important to get out. Despite the good news from the polls we are still living under the boot here in the USA. Poor people’s lives get wasted [...]
Help German anti-G8 activist Martin Kramer, repressed in Russian Far East
(reprinted, with slight emendations, from the website Autonomous Action: A Libertarian Communist Organization)
On the 3rd of March, Martin Kramer was arrested by police in the city of Vanino, in the Khabarovsk region of the Russian Far East, and was beaten up by FSB agents. [...]
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